Re: [lojban] Re: New PA-proposal

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:16 PM, maikxlx <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/11/18 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:50 AM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It seems that people are attempting to create a grammar for PA that produces
>>> all and ONLY those number strings that make sense. This is worthwhile, I
>>> think, but also unnecessary. We don't worry about which letters produce
>>> grammatical sentences, only which words.
>>
>> Not the best analogy. PAs are words, and in any case letters have very
>> strict restrictions on how they can be combined to form words. In
>> fact, in Lojban there are two and only two letters that may be said to
>> belong to the same "letter-selma'o", i.e. such that they can always
>> occupy the same position in a phonologically valid word. All other
>> letters have their own individual grammars. (Exercise for the reader:
>> which letters are those?)
>>
> You have a knack for summing things up.  My guess is {e} and {o}, by the way.

It's a clever challenge. I can't think of anything to make either e/o
or i/u the wrong answer, but I'm probably overlooking something.

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